STrUggLe TilL ViCtOrY

A number of international activists, scholars and human rights practitioners will be participating in the first-ever Baluchistan International Conference in Washington DC on Nov. 21-22.The American Friends of Baluchistan, an organization that supports the independence movement, has organized the conference.The conference has been organized to highlight the Baluch issues in Eastern and Western Baluchistan — now under Pakistani and Iranian occupation — and to pay tributes to slain Baluch freedom fighter Nawabzada Balaach Marri, 41, an elected member of the Baluchistan state assembly and son of legendary Baluch leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri.